PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.25 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.55 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G has 768 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.32 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.03 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 6 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 GPU MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G
AMD Radeon RX 570 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Polaris 20 XL GPU Chip GM206-250-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 6
2048 Shader 768
32 Render Output Units 32
128 Texture Units 48
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.663GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.663 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.7 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 106 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 has a turbo clock of 1.250 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G is 1.317 GHz.

1.168 GHz Base Clock 1.127 GHz
1.250 GHz Boost Clock 1.317 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.28 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

150 W TDP 90 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

240 mm Length 270 mm
126 mm Height 137 mm
38 mm Width 37 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 V3 was released in Q4/2017.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 GAMING 2G published in Q3/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

AXRX 570 8GBD5-DHDV3/OC Part-no --
Q4/2017 Release date Q3/2015
169 $ Launch Price 169 $
14 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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